Walt Whitman 200 Festival Opening Event
Date and Time
May 23, 2019 6:00 pm
Location
450K
450 K St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20001
May 23, 2019 6:00 pm
450K
We invite members of the public to join us and read a section of Walt Whitman’s Masterpiece, “Song of Myself,” at this festival opening night event. Co-sponsored by Beltway Poetry Quarterly and Busboys & Poets, hosted by Kim Roberts and Venus Thrash.
Reflecting both the international nature of the capitol city and Whitman’s influence on a wide range of cultures, some excerpts from “Song of Myself” will be read in Spanish, German, Burmese, Mandarin, Bulgarian, Hindi, Yiddish, Polish, Tamil, Portuguese, and Russian. We will project the entire poem in English on a screen behind the readers.
Food and beverages are available for purchase throughout the evening.
Additional information on the Walt Whitman 200 Festival can be found here.
Beltway Poetry Quarterly is an award-winning online literary journal and resource bank that showcases the literary community in Washington, DC and the surrounding Mid-Atlantic region. As the only journal in the region to focus solely on DC and surrounding jurisdictions, we are able to document a literary community in depth.
Since our founding in January 2000, we have showcased the richness and diversity of Washington area authors in every issue, with poets from different backgrounds, races, ethnicities, ages, and sexual orientations represented. We have included Pulitzer Prize winners and those who have never previously published. We have published academic, spoken word, and experimental authors?, and also those poets whose work defies categorization.
